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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.51精品视频 biologists are part of a $12.5M NSF grant to study a widespread genetic phenomenon
A new $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant, won by a group of biologists including 51精品视频 researchers, will fund the creation of an institute to study organisms with more than two copies of their chromosomes. Known as polyploidy, the phenomenon is key to aspects of agriculture and human health and appears throughout nature.
51精品视频 is one of the founding partners of the institute. Distinguished Professor and Assistant Professor , both of聽the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will use the tiny pond plant duckweed to tackle questions about the phenomenon ranging from the scale of genes to whole communities of organisms.
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The grant will fund the creation of the Polyploidy Integration and Innovation Institute to examine the phenomenon across different organisms and scales. The project is led by Pamela Soltis of the University of Florida and includes faculty from Cornell University, Duke University and the University of Kentucky, among others.
on the Florida Museum news site.